Posted on 06/02/2009 8:01:29 AM PDT by SmithL
If law enforcement officials believe they can prove that Scott Roeder is guilty of Sunday's shooting death of abortion doctor George Tiller at the Reformation Lutheran Church in Wichita, Kan., then they should work to put him away for life. Roeder is being held on first-degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault.
In killing Tiller, the gunman did more than commit one violent act that ended a man's life. The slaying also served to intimidate abortion providers - and perhaps chase some professionals out of the practice altogether. Thus by use of violence, the shooter set out to achieve that which he could not achieve through the democratic political process.
Boulder, Colo., abortion doctor Warren Hern called the killing "a political assassination in a historic pattern of anti-abortion political violence. It was terrorism," according to the Associated Press.
Unfortunately, the National Right to Life Committee issued a statement that lacked Hern's clarity and outrage. The statement extended sympathy to Tiller's family, then condemned "any such acts of violence regardless of motivation. The pro-life movement works to protect the right to life and increase respect for human life. The unlawful use of violence is directly contrary to that goal."
I understand that anti-abortion activists considered Tiller's practice of late-term abortions to be heinous in and of itself - and they had a moral argument. But that moral argument is undermined by the shooting of a doctor - in a church, of all places.
And it doesn't help when Randall Terry, an anti-abortion activist, tells reporters, "George Tiller was a mass murderer. We grieve for him that he did not have time to properly prepare his soul to face God. I am more concerned that the Obama administration will use Tiller's killing to intimidate pro-lifers into surrendering our most effective rhetoric...
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I don’t think that this guy (i.e., the shooter) should have been committing murder to do away with another murderer.
BUT, having said that, why didn’t that shooter kill the women who had abortions — as being *more responsible* for the murder of the unborn — than the abortionist?
There couldn’t be any abortions if the women didn’t have them in the first place. You would have an abortionist with no business if no women came.
So, the women who have abortions should be given the death penalty — before the abortionist is...
[ that is..., if we could ever change the laws on abortions in this country...]
The right answer is to restore the rule of law, to discredit Supreme Court excesses, and to pack the court with Justices who believe in the Constitution as written. Those who think race, foreign laws, or changing community values should be a factor in interpreting the law have no business on the Court, and we need to get decent people who believe in written laws back on the Supreme Court, where they belong. With Jutices who believe in the Constitution, Roe will be overturned, and this issue can be decided democratically - as it should have been in the first place.
Joining obama and liberals in abandoning the rule of law is exactly the wrong answer, even to this challenge.
Go lecture the poor dopes on the left.
It's more than moral argument to stay killing fully-formed babies is an act of murder. It's a FACT. It diminishes the humanity of infants to claim that such acts are merely a matter of opinion.
A Supreme Court that follows the US Constitution as written is the first half of the answer. The second half is finding a better way for citizens to cause the Constitution to be invoked (to avoid problems with Presidential citizenship, for example).
Terrorism in Wichita.........but not in Arknasas.
There is, 27 hours after the second event, ONE politician who has spoken out in condemnation of both acts.
Her name is Sarah Palin.
THE BRIEFING ROOM
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 31, 2009
STATEMENT FROM THE PRESIDENT ON THE MURDER OF DR. GEORGE TILLER
I am shocked and outraged by the murder of Dr. George Tiller as he attended church services this morning. However profound our differences as Americans over difficult issues such as abortion, they cannot be resolved by heinous acts of violence.
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On the Issue of the Little Rock attack on US soldiers 27 hours ago....
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The reason he "could not achieve" what he wished "through the democratic political process" is that abortion was not imposed on this country by any democratic process, but by judicial fiat.
Put it back into the "democratic political process" where it belongs, and you'll have fewer Scott Roeders.
I agree. But it’s funny that they will plaster his name across the world as a “terrorist” but they won’t do the same for the POS who shot and killed the military recruiter in Arkansas this morning.
Now. You wan to talk 'Terrorism'. Talk of the two U.S. Army Privates shot in front of the Arkansas Recruiting station (one died) by a Black convert to Islam (Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad), solely because they were in the U.S. Army. THAT, dear Debra is Terrorism! (and a Hate Crime. But that's another matter)
an aside, I must have missed the story on Eric Holder ordering U.S. Marshals to every Military Recruiting Station to protect the recruiters from other TERRORISTS like he did late Sunday for abortion doctors across the country. Or is that order from AG Holder still forthcoming? (((((( crickets ))))))
(1) Tiller performed 60,000 'late term' abortions in his career.
(2) 'doctor'? A fundamental medical precept for doctor's is 'First, Do No Harm'. Ergo, Tiller was no 'doctor'. Right now Tiller and Josef Mengele are comparing notes in HELL.
I wish for the same thing but it will never happen.
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